India, June 19 -- Bihar cricket has found another teenage name to celebrate, and this time the noise has come from the women's game. After Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's rapid rise pushed the state into the national cricket conversation, Akshara Gupta has produced an innings that has forced attention towards another corner of Bihar's talent pool.

Akshara, representing Raxaul in the Bihar Women's Under-19 One-Day Trophy, smashed an unbeaten 306 off just 126 balls at the Sandis Compound Ground in Bhagalpur. The knock was decorated with 55 fours and eight sixes, turning a domestic age-group match into a statement performance.

The scale of Akshara's innings was staggering. She reached her half-century in only 16 balls and completed her hundred in 3...